Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 01:41:28 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305130139110.70132@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAJOYFBCdCQsU5ssf2mnMxOKRLbyz%2BHCMRTTBC9rZA9ha1mjMBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru> <CAJOYFBCdCQsU5ssf2mnMxOKRLbyz%2BHCMRTTBC9rZA9ha1mjMBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Ed, On Sun, 12 May 2013, Ed Schouten wrote: > 2013/5/12 Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>: > > I'm afraid it could produce more harm than goodness on old hardware > > and/or other architectures like arm. > > Any change we make at FreeBSD may or may not cause problems on old > hardware and/or other architectures like ARM. It's typically a case of > trial and error to see what happens. > > In fact, I think that for embedded systems, using xz compression would > even be better. Many of those systems are often more storage space > constrained than CPU constrained (e.g. a 200 MHz wireless device with > only 8 MB of flash). > > I think it's a pity the change has been reverted without bringing any > hard data to the table. I would pretty much like more statistics about the issue as well; unfortunately, all I have handy are x86 hardware, and most of embedded-like systems aer amd64 atoms... I think some testing should be done on different platforms before making any kind of decisions. -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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